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Get served in 90 seconds! Automated restaurant Foodbox launches operations in Chennai

 | Feb 21, 2014, 08.47 AM IST
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CHENNAI: Foodbox, an automated restaurant which serves which serves everything from light tiffin to complete meal combo packs from leading restaurants, launched its operations in the city on Thursday.

Under this mechanism, customers get to choose their preferred restaurant along with their choice of food on easy-to-use touch screens and make payment using credit or debit cards, and food packages are served fresh and hot to him or her on a conveyer belt in 90 seconds.

One can also pay by cash to the staff at the counter who provides a Foodbox card to swipe and place an order.

The meals are packed at the partnering restaurants, transported to Foodbox and stored in a climate-controlled, automated system which heats the food just before serving. The automated system allows constant replenishment of food, based on stock and demand thereby minimising wastage.

"It took us three years to create and develop this idea as we understood the challenges faced in getting tasty and hygienic food while travelling or when in a hurry. Satish Chamyvelumani, founder and chief executive officer, Atchayam Business Solutions, said. The company is looking to install such automated delivery mechanism devices at airports, bus depots and railway stations and is in talks with the concerned authorities.

Restaurant chains such as Adyar Ananda Bhavan, Aasife and Brothers Biriyani, Moti Mahal, Amaravathi, Kaaraikudi and Mr Chows are associated with Foodbox currently.
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Facebook to buy mobile messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion

Reuters | Feb 20, 2014, 03.49 AM IST
Facebook to buy mobile messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion
Facebook said it would pay $4 billion in cash and about $12 billion in stock.
NEW YORK: Facebook Inc will buy fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock, as the world's largest social network looks for ways to boost its popularity, especially among a younger crowd.

The acquisition of the hot messaging service with more than 450 million users around the world stunned many Silicon Valley observers with its lofty price tag.

But it underscores Facebook's determination to win the market for messaging, an indispensable utility in a mobile era.

Combining text messaging and social networking, messaging apps provide a quick way for smartphone users to trade everything from brief texts to flirtatious pictures to YouTube clips - bypassing the need to pay wireless carriers for messaging services.

And it helps Facebook tap teens who will eschew the mainstream social networks and prefer WhatsApp and rivals such as Line and WeChat, which have exploded in size as mobile messaging takes off.

"People are calling them 'Facebook Nevers,'" said Jeremy Liew, a partner at Lightspeed and an early investor in Snapchat.

WhatsApp is adding about a million users per day, Facebook co-founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg said on his page on Wednesday.

"WhatsApp will complement our existing chat and messaging services to provide new tools for our community," he wrote on his Facebook page. "Since WhatsApp and (Facebook) Messenger serve such different and important users, we will continue investing in both."

Smartphone-based messaging apps are now sweeping across North America, Asia and Europe.

"Communication is the one thing that you have to use daily, and it has a strong network effect," said Jonathan Teo, an early investor in Snapchat, another red-hot messaging company that flirted year ago with a multibillion dollar acquisition offer from Facebook.

"Facebook is more about content and has not yet fully figured out communication."

Even so, he balked at the price tag.

As part of the deal, WhatsApp co-founder and chief executive officer Jan Koum will join Facebook's board, and the social network will grant an additional $3 billion worth of restricted stock units to WhatsApp's founders, including Koum.

That is on top of the $16 billion in cash and stock that Facebook will pay.

"Goodness gracious, it's a good deal for WhatsApp," Teo said.

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Shares in Facebook slid 5 percent to $64.70 after hours, from a close of $68.06 on the Nasdaq.

Facebook said on Wednesday it will pay $4 billion in cash and about $12 billion in stock in its single largest acquisition, dwarfing the $1 billion it paid for photo-sharing app Instagram.

The price paid for Instagram, which with just 30 million users was already considered overvalued by many observers at the time.

Facebook promised to keep the WhatsApp brand and service, and pledged a $1 billion cash break-up fee if the deal falls through.

Facebook was advised by Allen & Co, while WhatsApp has enlisted Morgan Stanley for the deal.
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"I am but a child sitting on a sea shore" quote from issac newton

How stem cells decide liver, pancreas formation

IANS | Feb 15, 2014, 06.44 PM IST
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NEW YORK: How do stem cells decide whether to become liver cells or pancreatic cells during development?

A cell's fate is determined by the nearby presence of 'prostaglandin E2' - a messenger molecule best known for its role in inflammation and pain.

Stem cell scientists Wolfram Goessling and Trista Northat the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) identified a gradient of prostaglandin E2 in the region of zebrafish embryos where stem cells differentiate into the internal organs.

The finding could potentially make liver and pancreas cells easier to generate both in the lab and for future cell therapies.

"Cells that see more prostaglandin become liver and the cells that see less prostaglandin become pancreas," said Goessling, assistant professor of medicine.

This is the first time that prostaglandin is being reported as a factor that can lead this 'fate switch' and essentially instruct what kind of identity a cell is going to be, the researchers added.

Other experiments showed that prostaglandin E2 could also enhance liver growth and regeneration of liver cells.

"Prostaglandin might be a master regulator of cell growth in different organs," Goessling said.

It's used in cord blood, as we have shown, it works in the liver, and who knows what other organs might be affected by it, revealed the findings published in the journal Developmental Cell. 
 
 
 ISSAC NEWTON SAID :_
 
 "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
 
 
 
 
 
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